Every story has two sides, and unfortunately the victor often writes the first history. However I do encourage reading the real LOTR story as told in the last ringbearer.

Saying that empathy is reserved for things you’re trying to fuck isn’t the “Gotcha!” you think it is.

Again, says more about you than anything.

Literally what happened after the Taiping Rebellion. This is the historical reason for Afghanistan and The Golden Triangle region currently being the largest opium producers in the world.

Read up on the PRC’s 1952 “Directive on Eradication of Drug Epidemic” and “mass line methodology” for how the “opium problem” was actually historically dealt with. Watching what the Taliban do over the next decade may also provide some insight.

https://flybrain.app/

I know you mean human brain, but the point is that the principles largely exist and the progress is accelerating.

However, one of the key learnings from the linked project is that the brain and body are intrinsically linked and biology is a nightmare mess of spaghetti code. Simulating just the brain has limited benefits and will not likely simulate a person or consciousness any more than simulating small pieces of a brain.

For some further reading: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030645222100021X (scihub)

That says more about how you treat your tools and view your material surroundings than speaking to any sort of universal truth.

The whole point is to change the risk calculations people make in order to make “civil” and “polite” actions such as protests, legislation, etc. more risky and therefore most people are less likely to engage in.

What these dumb asses don’t realize is that if the level of risk for the “peaceful” options rises to the same level as alternatives, which are arguably much more effective, then those are going to be the only recourse people have and the actions people will take.

I do believe your analysis is correct about there being zero chance of it being legislated away. So now what?

If you apply pressure does it hurt less or more? What about when you release the pressure? Is it a specific area or a bit more radial? Does it get worse or not during or after taking a deep breath in?

I’m assuming you’ve already tried inadvisable high quantities of NSAIDs and/or seing a doctor about the issue?

There were ~65000 arson offenses in 2024 with 6% as “other” which I’m interpreting as businesses, warehouses, etc. similar to this one. Which gives a high estimate of ~4000 events similar to his per year.

We are all hearing his story because he ‘flapped his gums’ and we aren’t hearing about the other 3999.

The warehouse was burned down because they weren’t paid enough on the first place.

Either someone with some foresight gets ahead of the problem and starts paying people enough to live, cancelling debts, etc., or there’s now ~1-200 more people with little left to lose and the fires will spread.

I know solidarity is unheard of in the US, but this is something that often builds it out of necessity if nothing else.

Also the issue of you need to be a deranged psychopath to get wealthy in the first place.

So it’s the fear of rejection/bigotry/etc. that’s your primary hold up?

that can totally be done

Alternatively HRT is kinda magic in its ability to reprogram your body. It’s not quite “full body swap” but if it eventually gets you 60-80% of the way there then why not?

Is there a reason you couldn’t be a man with “big pillowy tits, thick thighs and an ass so big you can see it from the front”?

It seems to me like you’re caught in a gender binary and falling into the trap of having to “choose” from a false dichotomy. HRT isn’t a binary either and assuming you have access to medical professionals within your area you can describe the specifics that you want and a good doctor will work with you to help meet those needs.

If you have the means and haven’t yet, a good first step could be to find a therapist to help understand, define and articulate what exactly those needs are. It’s not a decision you need to make in a day, HRT isn’t going to magically transition you to hyper-fem in a single day and force you to change your name and start life from scratch. There’s doesn’t even have to be any sort of “coming out” thing if you don’t want there to be. If you’ve got bigotted parents/coworkers/community/etc. you can totally just deny it to them and play it off as getting old or whatever.

Not sure what one can do, but if you need a good distracting hobby I’ve heard FPV drone racing is quite a bit of fun.

I have nothing “for men” specifically but there’s a million and a half tutorials on how to use primer, concealer and foundation. So long as you don’t start doing any contouring it should all be pretty gender agnostic.

It’s not so much about looking “goth” but learning how to augment whatever natural attractiveness you’ve got and demonstrating a level of self-assuredness and self-awareness. Knowing what works for you is part of that.

“Goth” just happens to be a very bold and somewhat easier style to look decent. A more “nude” look is, counterintuitively, pretty difficult but there’s almost no masculine individuals who wouldn’t benefit from it.

You can feed an infinite amount of data into existing models and it won’t improve the issues. The problem is with the models themselves.

And the audio used to train the base model are licensed. Usually under an MIT, creative commons, etc. license.

A single voice actor couldn’t produce enough lines to fully train an AI model…

The model is trained on a massive corpus of existing data and then fine tuned to match the target voice actor. Using less than ~30s of reference audio you can get a pretty decent fine tuning the main issue is that it currently isn’t on par with the quality and consistency of an in studio voice actor, especially over long time domains.

I think you underestimate how thin the skin of the professional managerial class is. It’s not about the tone of voice it’s about the directness and how that’s facilitating “conflict”.

Base 16 is used all the time in computer science. The symbols for 9+ aren’t arcane or unrecognizable it’s 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F. It’s often written with an 0X in front to indicate hexadecimal or something like 'h for hex and 'd for decimal.

Examples:

• 'h7 = 'd7
• 'hC = 'd12
• 'hF = 'd15
• 'h7CF = 'd(7 × 16²) + (12 × 16¹) + (15 × 16⁰) = 'd1792 + 'd192 + 'd15 = 'd1999

Try 106 years ago